Is medal.tv legit or a scam?
Established gaming-clip platform with venture backing, but flagged for data breach and installer malware detection; mixed trust signals.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Warning signs detected
Established gaming-clip platform with venture backing, but flagged for data breach and installer malware detection; mixed trust signals. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
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MT Intelligence
Medal.tv is a real, venture-backed company founded in 2015 with ~85 employees and active business registration in the Netherlands. The domain is 8–9 years old, SSL is valid, and our antivirus network shows no current detections. However, the evidence package reveals two serious red flags: a 2024 sandbox report flagged the installer (medal.tv/download) as dropping a malicious executable, and a data-breach report documents 42,860 compromised user credentials linked to the domain. Independent review sites rate it as legitimate, and the company has addressed past false positives (e.g., Malwarebytes backdoor.bot in 2018), but the recent breach and installer detection suggest either an active security incident or a supply-chain compromise. The Roblox brand reference on the page is legitimate integration, not impersonation. User complaints on Reddit mention hacked accounts and unauthorized clips, consistent with the breach report.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for medal.tv, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered ~8-9 years ago (3181 days as of scan); company founded 2015 in Netherlands, venture-backed with ~85 employees.
- Official site and app for recording, editing, and sharing PC gameplay clips; popular for Roblox and other games; has official Roblox community with 800k+ members.
- Past antivirus false positives reported for Medal.exe (e.g. Malwarebytes backdoor.bot in 2018); company provides whitelist guide citing game injection behavior.
- One sandbox (ANY.RUN, 2024) flagged medal.tv/download as malicious activity (dropped executable); may relate to installer or prior false positive.
- Data breach reported with ~42,860 credentials leaked; user complaints on Reddit about hacked accounts and unauthorized clips.
- Trustpilot score 3.5/5 (232 reviews); mixed feedback on functionality, bugs, rewards/quests; Scamadviser rates as very likely safe/legit.
- Company maintains fraud, malware, and community standards policies; no widespread confirmed scam reports of phishing or wallet theft despite 'Roblox' brand reference in page.
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think medal.tv is legit and safe for consumers to access. Very Likely Safe. Average to good trust score."
- Trustpilotopen
"TrustScore 3.5 out of 5 232 reviews. Medal is good in a content creator role, and I've clipped many gameplay that I would have not gotten if it wasn't for Medal."
- Malwarebytes Forumsopen
"Hello! My name is Brandon, a product manager over at Medal.tv. We've had one of our users get a false positive for a backdoor.bot. I have tested Medal.exe on every antivirus... haven't seen anything malicious."
Founded 2015, headquartered in Naarden, Netherlands. Venture-backed (raised $13M in 2024). Co-founders include Pim de Witte (CEO), Iggy Harmsen, others. Listed on Crunchbase/Pitchbook.
Our research found mixed signals. Positive: an independent review aggregator rates Medal.tv as very likely safe and legit; an independent review aggregator has 232 reviews averaging 3.5/5 stars, with users praising the clip-recording feature but noting bugs and account-security concerns; company is registered in the Netherlands, founded 2015, venture-backed with $13M raised in 2024, and listed on Crunchbase. Negative: LeakRadar reports a data breach with 42,860 compromised user credentials; ANY.RUN sandbox (2024) flagged the installer (medal.tv/download) as malicious activity, dropping MedalSetup.exe; Reddit complaints mention hacked accounts and unauthorized clips; Malwarebytes documented a false-positive detection (backdoor.bot, 2018) that the company addressed by explaining game-injection behavior. The breach and recent installer detection are the primary concerns.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Roblox on a non-official domain.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://medal.tv/
- 2200https://medal.tv/
Server Reputation
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat medal.tv as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review marked medal.tv as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- medal.tv currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. medal.tv presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 88 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- medal.tv is 8.7 years old, registered on 9/25/2017 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report medal.tv as clean.
- No. medal.tv is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- medal.tv resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. medal.tv sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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